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MURRIETA: Rotary awards scholarships

Murrieta Rotary awarded 11 Murrieta students $8,500 in scholarships for college and vocational schools. The high school seniors demonstrated high levels of academic success and community service.

Jake Hoctor from Murrieta Valley High School and Rachel Lamboy, Tanner Long and Kennedy Love, all from Murrieta Mesa High School were each awarded $1,000 scholarships. All were involved in Interact Club at their schools.

Two seniors from military families, Saxon Cropper-Sykes from Murrieta Valley High School and Sophia Parks from Vista Murrieta High School, received $1,000 awards from proceeds of the club's Field of Honor event.

Parks and Hoctor will attend UC Riverside where both plan to study science. Cropper-Sykes is headed to UC San Diegoâs business administration program, and Long is considering UC Santa Barbara or the University of LuVerne as a microbiology major.

The club also passed out $500 scholarships to Interact Club leaders for community service leadership. These went to Shelbey Rolison from Murrieta Mesa High School, Neil de Guzman from Vista Murrieta High School and Danielle Ledezma from Murrieta Valley High School.

Two Creekside High School students received $500 awards as well: Kevin Laurel, who plans to attend Mt. San Jacinto College and Javon Walker, who will attend the University of Texas in Arlington.

The scholarships program is one of many Murrieta Rotary programs that benefit area youth. The club sends seventh graders and high school juniors to leadership camps. Music and speech contests are available, as well as opportunities for collaboration on service projects through Interact Club programs.

Rotary is the worldâs oldest service organization and includes more than 1.2 million members in 190 countries.

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